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The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology
Five decades ago, Franz Halberg conceived the idea of a circadian-based therapy for cancer, given the differential tolerance to treatment derived from the intrinsic host rhythms. Nowadays, different experimental models have demonstrated that both the toxicity and efficacy of several anticancer dru...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34046365 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.687672 |
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author | Bermúdez-Guzmán, Luis Blanco-Saborío, Alejandro Ramírez-Zamora, Juliana Lovo, Eduardo |
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description | Five decades ago, Franz Halberg conceived the idea of a circadian-based therapy for cancer, given the differential tolerance to treatment derived from the intrinsic host rhythms. Nowadays, different experimental models have demonstrated that both the toxicity and efficacy of several anticancer drugs vary by more than 50% as a function of dosing time. Accordingly, it has been shown that chemotherapeutic regimens optimally timed with the circadian cycle have jointly improved patient outcomes both at the preclinical and clinical levels. Along with chemotherapy, radiation therapy is widely used for cancer treatment, but its effectiveness relies mainly on its ability to damage DNA. Notably, the DNA damage response including DNA repair, DNA damage checkpoints, and apoptosis is gated by the circadian clock. Thus, the therapeutic potential of circadian-based radiotherapy against cancer is mainly dependent upon the control that the molecular clock exerts on DNA repair enzymes across the cell cycle. Unfortunately, the time of treatment administration is not usually considered in clinical practice as it varies along the daytime working hours. Currently, only a few studies have evaluated whether the timing of radiotherapy affects the treatment outcome. Several of these studies show that it is possible to reduce the toxicity of the treatment if it is applied at a specific time range, although with some inconsistencies. In this Perspective, we review the main advances in the field of chronoradiotherapy, the possible causes of the inconsistencies observed in the studies so far and provide some recommendations for future trials. |
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spelling | pubmed-81446482021-05-26 The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology Bermúdez-Guzmán, Luis Blanco-Saborío, Alejandro Ramírez-Zamora, Juliana Lovo, Eduardo Front Oncol Oncology Five decades ago, Franz Halberg conceived the idea of a circadian-based therapy for cancer, given the differential tolerance to treatment derived from the intrinsic host rhythms. Nowadays, different experimental models have demonstrated that both the toxicity and efficacy of several anticancer drugs vary by more than 50% as a function of dosing time. Accordingly, it has been shown that chemotherapeutic regimens optimally timed with the circadian cycle have jointly improved patient outcomes both at the preclinical and clinical levels. Along with chemotherapy, radiation therapy is widely used for cancer treatment, but its effectiveness relies mainly on its ability to damage DNA. Notably, the DNA damage response including DNA repair, DNA damage checkpoints, and apoptosis is gated by the circadian clock. Thus, the therapeutic potential of circadian-based radiotherapy against cancer is mainly dependent upon the control that the molecular clock exerts on DNA repair enzymes across the cell cycle. Unfortunately, the time of treatment administration is not usually considered in clinical practice as it varies along the daytime working hours. Currently, only a few studies have evaluated whether the timing of radiotherapy affects the treatment outcome. Several of these studies show that it is possible to reduce the toxicity of the treatment if it is applied at a specific time range, although with some inconsistencies. In this Perspective, we review the main advances in the field of chronoradiotherapy, the possible causes of the inconsistencies observed in the studies so far and provide some recommendations for future trials. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8144648/ /pubmed/34046365 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.687672 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bermúdez-Guzmán, Blanco-Saborío, Ramírez-Zamora and Lovo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Bermúdez-Guzmán, Luis Blanco-Saborío, Alejandro Ramírez-Zamora, Juliana Lovo, Eduardo The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title | The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title_full | The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title_fullStr | The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title_full_unstemmed | The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title_short | The Time for Chronotherapy in Radiation Oncology |
title_sort | time for chronotherapy in radiation oncology |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34046365 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.687672 |
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